Jobs Plan Report Card Issued
Vancouver, B.C.- Premier Christy Clark says the BC Jobs Plan has made progress in the 6 months since it was first announced. (click on report cover at right for complete report)
Clark says since the jobs plan was announced, 39,900 jobs have been created. The 6 month report has been released and notes specific achievements over the first six months:
* In less than six months, four mines have begun construction, received key approvals or permits or had operations extended. The backlog of notice of work applications for mines has also been reduced by almost two-thirds.
* The National Energy Board has approved a 20-year export licence for the Kitimat liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility – the first of its kind in Canada. This is a big step toward the jobs plan’s goal to bring at least one LNG pipeline and terminal online by 2015, and another three in operation by 2020.
* $50 million has been committed toward terminal, road and rail improvements at the Deltaport container facility. Another $15 million was invested to support road and rail utility infrastructure expansion at the Port of Prince Rupert. The government also committed $5 million to improve border infrastructure and information systems.
* Established the Major Investments Office, dedicated to working with investors proposing large projects with the potential to create large numbers of jobs.
* Regional Work Force Table forums have been held in various locations throughout the province, as well as Regional Economic Investment Pilots in Campbell River, Barriere-McBride and the North Fraser region.
* The Immigration Task Force has been established and has toured the province, seeking advice and input from communities and employers about their ongoing support for immigration and the role immigrants will play in filling the forecasted one million jobs openings over the next decade.
* The BC Jobs and Investment Board has been put in place, providing objective analysis and recommendations on the jobs plan’s progress.
* Over $500 million is being invested annually for labour market and training programs, targeted to meeting regional and industry labour market needs. A trades training conference was also held on Dec. 5, 2011, attracting more than 160 leaders from training and education, business, labour, government and trade organizations.
* As part of opening new markets with Asia Pacific, the Province embarked on the BC Jobs and Trade Mission to China and India in November. The trade mission established 60 business deals and partnership agreements across six sectors, including transportation, seafood, LNG, mining, post-secondary education and forestry.
The next six months will concentrate on sector strategies for forestry, mining, agrifoods, transportation, international education and technology.
"The jobs plan has three key pillars -opening markets, particularly with the Asia Pacific, strengthening our infrastructure to get goods to market, and working with employers and communities to encourage job creation, said Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Pat Bell. "I’m encouraged to see that in the first six months’ progress is being made on all these fronts, and am eager to see the results of the next six months."
Comments
No actual manufacturing jobs created here, just steps to get our natural resources out of province as quickly as possible at any cost to the environment and sustainability of our futures. The LNG’s are the worst thing, given how much electricity they are going to need and you and I have to fund the creation of the Electrical system.
Any specific report on how many jobs and at what companies and at what level of pay these jobs were created by our HST? “Uh, er, ummm, we don’t have that information, folks”. I thought not.
“…filling the forcasted one million job openings over the next decade.” One hundred thousand jobs per year for ten years? in BC? Does that include MacD’s, Timmies, all those other plum jobs? And as posted above, where is the breakdown on the 39-9?
Bell “…am eager to see the results of the next six months.” So that we can spread more fertilizer before the election.
Why is the jobless rate going up then???
40,000. Ya, what the hell ever!
The Lieberals must of hired IPG to write the press release.
Prediction:
Sure going to be busy on the pothole filled streets of PG with all the new traffic from the influx new residents.
The city’s inventory of property downtown will probably drop to zero by this tme next year.
IPG will be working overtime to handle all the new business enquiries.
The $15 Million for the Port of Prince Rupert was announced last September, so its old news.
He also forget to mention that the Federal Government invested $15 Million and there was $30 Million each from CN Rail, and the Port of Prince Rupert, for this project.
Does Pr.Rupert have a Wendys yet ?
No different than predicting the weather 200 years from now eh! You talk about forestry, well you sold the forest to China. Is that where your getting a million jobs created……….
Highest raw-log exports ever. Bye bye BC Jobs, courtesy of the BC Liberal Party.
BC – best place on Earth
Worst Government
Three “B’s” in action again.
They say its all about jobs… if you look at the immigration angle its not just about jobs, but creating two classes of people who fill those jobs.
Everything Pat Bell (Chinese mines with Chinese workers) and his counterparts in Ottawa Jason Kenney are doing is sneaky in its slew footing of Canadian workers.
They are busy creating an immigration system that is based on work visa’s that restrict rights of individuals and make citizenship a ten year ordeal. Its a subsidy to multinationals to get foreign workers making a fifth what a Canadian worker makes, and boxes in the foreign workers options to leave an employer without risking deportation.
This undermines Canadian workers because it creates a slave class of workers in direct competition with the Canadian work force… a work force making less and not party to Canadian benefits, pensions, and health and safety. No need to off shore when you can inshore the slave labor.
There was a time when Canada stood for the rights of an individual held universally to all citizens. If you came to Canada to contribute you could get citizenship and have rights. This protected Canadian interests as much as it protected the immigrant.
Nowadays more and more our immigrants are under the model of the Palestinian equivalent, as we move to the classification of rights and the bureaucracy of liberty… with the faint hope of citizenship so long as they don’t rock their employers boat.
When we hear a million jobs in the next decade… these aren’t jobs for Canadian citizens they have planned. More and more these will be job contracts for workers in limbo… as per the Jason Kenny and Pat Bell plan for multinational GDP growth.
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